The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-08-28


difficult one. believe any hon
est inquirer may find the answer.
Let us look at the whiskey side for
moment. What does it do? 1t
sends between 10000 and 100000
drunkards to the grave every year.
Think of it, A traffic which comes
down like the hideous arch-fiend Of
might and sweeps away myriads
of human beings every year. Now
imagine, if you can, a man claiming
to love Jesus Christ, to love purity
and the souls of men, a member OF
a Baptist church walk up to de-
post his vote on September 10Th to
continue this wholesale destruction
of human life. Come We raying,
cursing, hideous denizens of the
drunkards hell, with eyeballs Of fire
and tongues Of fame, tell, if We can
tell, the hellward tending and soul
destroying influence of the rum traf-
ticl March We CHASTITY forms to the
polls on that September morn, and
stay the hand of every professed
Christian man who dares to vote to
continue a traffic which murders
men by wholesale; traffic which
defies God, robs heaven and peoples
hell.
Again this traffic keeps on hand a
constant supply Of 100000 drunk
ards. Think, of 100000 human be-
ings reeling and staggering in these
United States. How can you con
ceive of any one claiming to be
Chistian lending his influence, of
casting his vote to keep this vast
multitude drunk, and to increase
their number as the years pass by?
Can any man think christian morali-
ty is on the side of such a traffic as
this? Ex-senator Window, of Min
nessota, in recent address at Rose
land Park, Woodstock, Conn.,, gave
expression to the following: 1T is
estimated upon the best attainable
authority that this tyrant's revels
cost annually more than 100000, 600,
that 100000 victims, rendered worse
than useless, are staggering along in
his triumphal procession to dishon-
ored graves; and. that his army of
immediate retainers, the makers and
vendors of s'liquid fire. numbers 500,
600 more. Estimating that this
million of makers, vendors and vic
tins, if engaged in some Legitimate
business, could have earned $l.50
per day, we have loss in productive
power of $450,000,000 per annum,
which added to the $700,000,00C
wasted for strong drinks, makes a
total of 81, 100000. Add to this
taxation estimated at $100,000,000
for the support of jails, criminal
prosecutions, penitentiaries, aims
houses, pauperism and all the un-
numbered burdens imposed upon the
country by this tyrant and you have
, 81, $50, 100000 as the annual cost o.
z his reign" In view of this enor
, nous waste can any man claiming
, to be Christian vote to sustain tht
whisky traffie?. Is there Baptist
, in all the State of Tennessee whose
conscience is so weak, whose mora
reason is so dethroned, whose i'm
pulses are so base, as to cast his
i, vote for the continuation of thii
, murderous and devilish traffic
| Does any man suppose that Chris
tian morality is on the side of thu
, traffic which produces more thai
, seventy-five per cent. of all the crimes
!, of this country and Europe? 4
traffic which fills our streets witt
paupers and our jails with unfortun
: ates and our asylums with class o
! men who violate the laws of the Stat
= every day of their lives; who neve
: permit q Sunday to pass that the.
! don't sell their Ubiquitous beverag
;, in defiance of God and man? HOY
can any man pray for God to de
!, throne sin in the community and g
a Immediately to the ballot box an
vote for the whisky traffic to contin
n ne? / leave each whisky Baptist t
: answer for himself, which side is Go
i on? X. A. VENABLE.